Deadline for Applications: December 1, 2018 (Priority Deadline)
The University of Southern California department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites applications from well-qualified students.
Basic information about the faculty and program is available on the web site – http://dornsife.usc.edu/sll/ For information on how to apply, please see http://dornsife.usc.edu/sll/how-to-apply/. The department offers excellent opportunities for graduate support leading to the PhD, starting with standard five-year packages that include three years of fellowship support and two teaching years, tuition, and health insurance.
Applicants who wish to start graduate studies in the fall semester should apply by December 1 to receive priority consideration for fellowship funding.
Funding for graduate study at USC is generous but competitive, and deadlines for application matter. Applications will be accepted through March for the following fall semester, but the chance receiving funding diminishes significantly after January. The financial support is intended to fund the entire course of PhD study (see Financial Support) and only those students whom are able to be funded are admitted.
The Slavic department at USC is internationally known. The department’s dynamic faculty have wide-ranging research interests with particular concentration in Russian literature and culture of the modern era. In addition to the core of faculty whose focus is literature (Greta Matzner-Gore, Sarah Pratt, Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, Thomas Seifrid, and Alexander Zholkovsky) there is a specialist in eastern European cinema (Anna Krakus). Next fall they will also be joined by Professor Colleen McQuillen, a scholar of Russian modernism, who comes from the University of Illinois at Chicago. They also anticipate making another senior hire in the next year. They department offers competitive funding, with five years of support (3 on fellowship, 2 teaching) which includes tuition and health insurance.
Additionally, the Los Angeles area itself, with its abundance of cultural resources makes USC an exciting place at which to do graduate work (for a sampling of the areas attractions, see http://dornsife.usc.edu/life-in-la/).